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We are only half-way through January yet there's been so much exciting news already for open-source and Linux enthusiasts as well as when it comes to interesting computer hardware.

Given the amount of news already in the first two weeks of the year, here's a look at some of the most popular content on Phoronix already for 2016. Thanks to the Consumer Electronics Show, more Vulkan news, AMDGPU details, the start of the Linux 4.5 kernel cycle, and more, it's been very busy so far.

Month to date on Phoronix there have already been 160 original news posts. Here's a look at the top ten most viewed so far for the first half of the month. While the first article being about Linux/open-source letdowns may make it seem like our readers are masochists or Microsoft fan boys, that article received over 1.8 million views so far... That's well more than usual for a article just published days ago on Phoronix. However, it seems that article was the target of some denial of service attack with that article in particular having been heavily bombarded. That's also why the Phoronix.com site has been a bit unresponsive at times this past week.

Hyperion Confirms Leak Of AmigaOS 3.1 Source CodeHyperion Entertainment confirmed that at the end of December the source code to AmigaOS 3.1 was leaked, which is now causing problems for the company continuing to develop this proprietary operating system.

Meanwhile, the most popular Phoronix reviews / multi-page featured articles so far this month have included:

KDE Plasma 5.5 Has Evolved Well Beyond Where Plasma 4 EndedKen Vermette has written a lengthy article for us about his thoughts on the state of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop as of the recent 5.5 release. If you are curious how KDE Plasma 5 is panning out, how it works on Wayland, and much more, this article is a definite must-read.

A 10-Way Linux Distribution Battle To Kick Off 2016As our first multi-way Linux distribution comparison of 2016, I took ten different modern Linux distribution releases and benchmarked them on the same Intel Haswell system. Being benchmarked were various releases of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Debian, Clear Linux, Fedora, Antergos, and CentOS.

How Three BSD Operating Systems Compare To Ten Linux DistributionsEarlier this week I posted the results of a 10-way Linux distribution battle on the same Intel Xeon system and using all of the popular and latest Linux distribution releases. Taking things further, the article today has those results complemented by results on the Xeon system for several BSD operating systems. For seeing how the BSD performance stacks up to Linux, DragonFlyBSD, OpenBSD, and the FreeBSD-based PC-BSD were benchmarked.

The OpenGL Speed & Perf-Per-Watt From The Radeon HD 2000/3000 Series Through The R9 FuryWhat's the best way to beat the winter blues? Benchmarking, of course! For starting off our 2016 of graphics card benchmarking under Linux, I've been working on a large round-up of re-testing AMD Radeon graphics cards from the HD 2900XT (R600) graphics card through the latest R9 Fury (Fiji) graphics card while running Ubuntu and using the very latest open-source graphics driver stack. Here's an interesting look at how the OpenGL graphics performance has evolved on the AMD side over the past decade while also looking at the performance-per-Watt.

How AMD's Proprietary Linux Driver Evolved In 2015Last month I showed how AMD's open-source driver performance evolved in 2015 while today's article is looking at how the closed-source AMD / Radeon Technologies Group proprietary driver has evolved over the course of the year.

Linux Game: Volvox. Let's Kick Start Evolution.Volvox features the Trimoebas, who are triangular shaped unicellular organisms living in the primordial soup. They have but one goal in life: build the first multicellular organism. Simple, right?

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